Word: object
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Natural, straightforward, usually tragicomical, Author O'Connor's stories present a world that is self-contained-often sadly so. An old Ford is the most up-to-date object in the book; the reader's eyes are directed into the past rather than the future. In one of the stories an old woman attains her lifelong ambition, which is to be buried in the place where she was born. In another, a kindly, drunken father spins his young daughters what seems to be simply a gay, Oriental tale, but which turns suddenly into...
...mark by bagging the required 50 points in only 20 innings. Once he had found himself, even the lingering aftereffects of amoebic dysentery, picked up on a Central American tour, could not keep him from making the most difficult of shots-such as a six-cushion carom with the object balls frozen on the rail...
...disturbances at the muzzle of a gun at the moment of firing (see cut). The knots near the muzzle are the hot, expanding gases expelled from the barrel. The long, dark, curved line ahead of them is the "shock wave" of compressed air created when an object travels faster than sound (the smaller curved line at the top of the picture is a shock wave caroming off a metal plate). This phenomenon, which airmen know as "compressibility," has thus far prevented airplanes from flying faster than sound (TIME, July...
...years Edgar Bergen has made himself a national figure largely by talking to himself. He has done this with the aid of an apparatus called Charlie McCarthy, which has become an even more popular national figure, and probably more human to a larger number of people than any inanimate object in world history. It takes only the mildest indulgence in the world of fantasy to be persuaded that Charlie, a fellow of infinite and raucous wit, is actually alive...
...recesses of the New York Times library. The British press was audible last week, for an equivalent reason. Beginning its 76th convention at Blackpool, Lancashire, the British Trades Union Congress announced that it would admit to its press tables only reporters holding membership in the National Union of Journalists. Object: to high-pressure more newsmen into militant N.U.J. (A smaller, rival union, the Institute of Journalists, has never struck...